INDEXArians, 377n
Aridi,408
'arif, 58, 95, 245, 528
Ark of the Covenant, 491, 495
Armenia, 136, 402
Armenian Geography, 126, 128, 132,
147,156
army/armies, Basran, 249-50; Kufan,
241n, 243-45; Muslim, 174,237,
239, 301; Persian, 280, 326; Sasanian,
432
Arta Wraf Namak, 288, 291, 293
AI1aban, 110, 196
Arzan, 130. See also Arzon
arziiq, al-, 100
Arzon, 127n, 130,362,378,385,395;
bishop of, 340. See also Arzan
Asad,Banu, 33n, 215, 218, 221,229,
230, 241, 242n, 243, 244, 245,450,
493
Asawira, 182n, 198, 207, 210, 211,
213,238,249,272,273,301,431,
483, 508, 509, 510, 516, 524, 528
ascetic(s), 363, 368, 370, 374, 378, 533;
Muslim, 536
asceticism, 298, 299, 322, 326, 328,
361,401,403,405,422,458-65,
467,476,494,503,504,505,514,
523, 536; Manichaean, 402
~bab, 433, 449, 534. See also ~ababa
Ash'arin, Banu, 244
Ash'ath, al-, ibn Qays, 93, 240, 258,
431,440,485,496
Ashem Vohu, 292
Ashi, Rabbi, 316, 317, 419, 425
Ashir, 314
'ashir, 118
ashraf, 58, 83, 95, 221, 251, 257, 258,
262, 455, 474, 486, 487, 488, 489,
490, 491, 493, 535
Ashtor, E., 7
~l/aslik, 22, 114
Asoristan, 126, 132, 137, 143, 162,
163,295
Aspanpur, 92, 340
assimilation, 214, 215, 221, 222, 273,
515, 523, 524
assumptus homo, 355, 356
Assyria, 137, 219
astrology, 290, 347, 392-93, 394, 399,
404,409,418,425,426,429,430,
509,529; Chaldaean, 384
Aswad, al-, ibn Sari', 438
Aswad, al-, ibn Yazid, 448, 457
'afa',528
Atesh Gah, 171, 283, 300
Athanasius, 377
Athena, 386n. See also Allat
Atiq,237
'Apyya ibn Sa'd ibn Junada, 268
atonement, 316, 322,451,496
Aturia,132
Aturpat, 421
audience, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83-86, 87, 89,
97
Avesta, 285, 287, 294, 419
Avestan, abbreviation, 20, 527; lan-
guage,21
Awd, Banu, 240, 246, 247n
Awgfu, Mar, 204
awliya', 69,488,489
awqaf, 86
aw~iya', 488. See also w~i'
A'yan,269
'Ayn Jamal, 153
'Ayn Namir, 385, 396
'Ayn Sayd, 153
'Ayn Tamr, 36, 149, 151, 154, 164,
182, 191, 195, 205, 218, 221, 222,
223,224,226,227,228,233,251,
361n
'Ayn Warda, Battle of, 489
Az,389n
Azadhbih, son of Baniyan, 151, 187,
195,258
AzariqalAzraqi, 46, 473, 475, 479, 482
azatih, 290, 528
Azd, Banu, 215, 221, 228, 236, 241,
242n, 243,244, 248, 249, 250, 251,
252,260,397,438,473,493; ceme-
tery of, 242; Sarat, 248; 'Uman, 249
Azerbayjan, 136, 265, 283, 378
Azermidukht, 38
'Azram, cemetery of, 242Ba'al-Shamen, 384, 397
Ba'alzebub, 397
Ba'arbaya, 130, 177,353. See also Beth
'Arbhaye
Ba'ashiqa, 133
Bab, 193
Babai,183
Babai, catholicos, 348, 355
Babai of Nasibin, 181n, 360n, 362